SAVASTA Salvatore

Personal data:

Full Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, University of Messina, Italy since January 2021 at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences
(MIFT), University of Messina, Italy.

Main academic activities:

Coordinator of the PhD School in Physics since October 2025.
Member of the Commission for the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) 2023/25.
Tutor or co-tutor of several (over ten) PhD students in physics.
Advisor of several three-year master's theses in physics (over twenty).
Courses: Physics of Matter for the bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Messina, Condensed Matter Physics for the master's degree in physics at the University of Messina.

Research topics
- Light-matter interaction, cavity QED, circuit QED
- Quantum optics
- Open quantum systems
- Quantum optomechanics
In the past he has also worked on:
- Nano-optics and quantum plasmonics
- Quantum optics in semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures.
- Many-body correlations in semiconductor quantum structures.
- Quantum theory of scattering and emission of light in complex media.

Co-author of over 150 publications in international scientific journals, including a paper in Nat. Rev. Phys., one in Nat. Phys, one in Phys. Rev. X, four papers on Nat. Commun., three on ACS Nano, fourteen on Phys. Rev. Lett., four on ACS Photonics. He has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and schools and is a member of the editorial board of Scientific Reports for the Quantum Physics section.
- Hirsch index 37, with over 5700 citations (source Scopus)
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=vnWyp5sAAAAJ&hl=it
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9253-3597